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Speaker 1: Great the Flick with Ben o'he on ninety six AM

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Speaker 1: them Oh Shay, good morning, Good morning, guys. Got a

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Speaker 1: fun one to talk about today. Yes, I've been looking

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Speaker 1: forward to this, so let's just dive straight in. It's

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Speaker 1: a Little Mermaid Now. This was Disney's beloved nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: nine animated classic, one of their best, everybody's favorite animated film.

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Speaker 1: But the studio has made a habit of remaking all

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Speaker 1: of their classic animated films in recent years. We've seen

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Speaker 1: Beauty in the Beast, the Lion King, even though that

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Speaker 1: was all cgi kind of live action Cinderella. They haven't

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Speaker 1: really got a great track record of doing a good

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Speaker 1: job on these live action remakes. And I live at

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Speaker 1: Meran and The Little Mermaids certainly doesn't change that. But

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Speaker 1: before we get into it, I just want to say

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Speaker 1: that's not a reflection on the performance of Hallie Bailey

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Speaker 1: as Ariel the Little Mermaid herself, because she was the

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Speaker 1: center of some controversy when it was announced that she

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Speaker 1: was cast in the role because in the animated film,

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Speaker 1: obviously Ariel is white, she has red hair. Hallie Bailey

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Speaker 1: is a Grammy nominated singer and actor of color, and

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Speaker 1: so there was social media outcry, which is really racist

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Speaker 1: and exactly she's a mermaid. Yeah, that doesn't exist, like exactly,

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Speaker 1: like how it was so so absolutely ridiculous. And she's great,

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Speaker 1: and Halle Bailey is great in this film. She's the

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Speaker 1: best bit about the new film. There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: Her singing is amazing, her acting is great. But it's

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Speaker 1: everything else around her that's not so good. The new

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Speaker 1: film is nearly an hour longer than the original, and

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Speaker 1: so yeah, it's two hours long and you feel every

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Speaker 1: minute of it. You just go, gosh, when is this

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Speaker 1: thing going to end? Kids are going to see it,

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Speaker 1: don't they. Yeah, Well, they've added a couple of new songs,

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Speaker 1: which is which is why the runtime has blown out

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Speaker 1: a little bit and everything is dragged out to kind

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Speaker 1: of pump up the drama. In the end, it has

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Speaker 1: the opposite effect. The songs are written by Hamilton creator

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Speaker 1: lin Manuel Mirando, who is a literal genius, so he's fantastic,

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Speaker 1: but the songs are all terrible. Like it's actually the

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Speaker 1: worst thing that Linn Manuel Miranda has ever been involved in.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know whether it's his work or it's

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Speaker 1: just because you want the movie to be over and

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Speaker 1: you're going, oh, just finish singing for Christ's sake. And

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Speaker 1: the other big problem is the bloke they've got playing

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Speaker 1: Prince Eric, English actor Jonah Howard King. He's so ridiculously earnest,

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Speaker 1: but honestly he has about as much appeal as a

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Speaker 1: jellyfish that's being washed up on the beach blowing on

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Speaker 1: the jetty. Not good. Yeah, basically basically it's and the

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Speaker 1: Little Mermaid is like, she's pulled up a blowy. You

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Speaker 1: really should throw it back in. And you've got you've

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Speaker 1: got all the all of the great characters from the

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Speaker 1: original film, Ariel's mates, the Bastion and the Crab, who

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Speaker 1: was portrayaling the original cartoon was a bit racist, perhaps

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Speaker 1: this time around, it's played by David Diggs, who was

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Speaker 1: in Hamilton with Lin Mawel Miranda. He's fantastic. Scuttle the

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Speaker 1: Bird is played by the Asian American comedian Aquafina, and

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Speaker 1: Little Flounder, the cute fish who was Ariel's good mate,

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Speaker 1: is played by Jacob Tremblay, the young actor who was

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Speaker 1: in Wonder and Good Boys and a bunch of other

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Speaker 1: films and they're pretty good. You know, they team up

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Speaker 1: for the original song kiss the Girl, which is fantastic,

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Speaker 1: but you're kind of hoping that Eric doesn't kiss her

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Speaker 1: and Ariel finds something better to do with her time.

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Speaker 1: There's really no reason the film turned out as bad

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Speaker 1: as it did. It was directed by Rob Marshall, who

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Speaker 1: previously gave us Mary Poppins Returns, which was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: He did the Oscar winning musical Chicago, he did parts

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Speaker 1: of the Caribbean on Strange at Tides, Memoirs of a Geisha.

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Speaker 1: He's got a great track record, but he just lost

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Speaker 1: the plot on this film, like literally lost the plot.

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Speaker 1: And even though some of the some of the original

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Speaker 1: songs like under the Sea and Poor Unfortunate Souls are

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Speaker 1: pretty good, the rest of the film is a mess.

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Speaker 1: Melissa McCarthy as the sea witch Ursula is kind of

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Speaker 1: fun though, like she's she really leans into the into

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Speaker 1: the sort of the evil villain vibe as a sort

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Speaker 1: of octopus witch. But the big problem with this film

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Speaker 1: is it's so dimly lit, Like it's dark, like you

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Speaker 1: can hardly see what's going on most of the time,

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Speaker 1: and like there are honestly creatures living in the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the Mariana trench that see more light than the

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Speaker 1: actors in this film. Sonny's on at one stage, Ben.

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Speaker 1: It's how they do it these days. I guess to

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Speaker 1: make it theme a bit more gritty and realistic, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's just dark, miserable. Harvey bar Dam plays Ariel's dad,

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Speaker 1: King Trite. I know, I know. It's one of the

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Speaker 1: one of the creepiest performances of his career, and he's

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Speaker 1: played actual serial killers. It's another live action dud. And

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Speaker 1: the scary thing is it'll make a ton of money

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Speaker 1: in the box office. Even you know, the really bad

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Speaker 1: ones like The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast

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Speaker 1: still made a billion dollars at the worldwide box office.

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Speaker 1: This one will probably make a billion dollars, which is

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Speaker 1: why Disney keeps making more of them. Do you want

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Speaker 1: to know some of the other live action remakes on

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Speaker 1: the way this is going to it's going to be

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Speaker 1: depressing to his of them. So they're going to do

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Speaker 1: a remake of snow White, They're going to do a

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Speaker 1: remake of Lilo and Stitch. I don't even know why Hercules,

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Speaker 1: the Hunchback of Notre Dame Bambi. They're going to remake

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Speaker 1: Bambi the Aristocats. I don't know who was asking for

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Speaker 1: an Aristo Cats remake? And uh and Moana, which is

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Speaker 1: really wasn't out that long enough? Yeah, they're going to

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Speaker 1: remake that snow Ided be on only fans. Now, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: she single woman living with seven little men? You have

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Speaker 1: a billboard how many clam bakes? You're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: clam bake? Are you giving it? I'm giving this too,

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Speaker 1: Okay too. You've been been generously. It might have got

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Speaker 1: thank you,